Hey, hurdlers, Emily here.

The last time I checked in with you, I had just come back to New York City from a few weeks

of travel, and now, well, I feel like I have been just as nonstop in the city as I was on

the road.

Also, it is scorching hot here, as in, you can't go a full weekend day without incorporating either a movie theater,

extreme air conditioning, a swimming pool, or a beach into your plans.

Thankfully, my day today involves some poolside time at the beach at the dream downtown,

which means hopefully I'll be able to avoid melting for just one more afternoon.

On today's episode, I sit down with David Seek in Los Angeles, California.

He is the creator of precision running at Equinox, a wildly popular treadmill running experience

out of the luxury fitness gym, which also owns fitness brands, Pure Yoga, Blink Fitness, and SoulCycle.

Now with two standalone precision running labs in Santa Monica and Boston, and more than 200 instructors certified in his

method called the balanced interval training experience, some days David has to pinch himself

that he started something that's become somewhat of a cold favorite. But it didn't happen overnight as a lot of great things don't.

And in fact, David dreamed of running professionally for a career after college.

In this episode, you'll hear exactly how he felt when he realized he had to pivot and reevaluate,

explaining that in his mind, an athlete dies twice, once for real, and once when

they stop competing in their sport. I know I have a lot of runners that listen to the pod, so please,

I want you to listen to the end every time, but especially today. Stick this one out. David's got

really smart advice for getting over the mental hurdles a lot of us face on those

mornings. We just don't think we've got it in the take. He also talks about the mantra that it's not

important how hard you go. It's important how you go hard. Interesting stuff. As always, check out

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